Indian jurisprudence demands that there should be conclusive evidence before conviction. Perhaps that is why the special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation yesterday acquitted all those char...

Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday called on L.K. Advani ahead of a court summons for the 92-year-old BJP leader to record his statement in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case. A special CBI cour...

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has reportedly given Murli Manohar Joshi, chairman, parliamentary estimates committee, “a list of high-profile fraud cases of non-performing assets to the Prime Mi...

The finance minister, Arun Jaitley, is unable to address public meetings this election season because of his indifferent health, but he is more than making up for it. Many in the Bharatiya Janata Part...

Mamata Banerjee described the hype around Narendra Modi’s announcement of the anti-satellite (ASAT) missile launch as an “apocalyptic thunderstorm” that turned out to be “a short spell of rain...

Too much of anything is not good, goes the adage. Word on the street is that the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, might have overdone it with his ‘love and compassion’ rhetoric. The ‘infamous�...

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the special judge conducting trial in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case to deliver the verdict within nine months from today. A bench of Justices R.F. Nariman and...

L.K. Advani on Thursday declared that the BJP had never seen “those who disagree with us” as “enemies” or “anti-national”, appearing to publicly chastise Prime Minister Narendra Modi and p...

Mythology has it that misled and grief-stricken, Dronacharya, counted among the great gurus of all time, simply stepped off his chariot, laid down his weapons, sat in meditation and was beheaded on th...

India has had a woman prime minister. It also has several mercurial women politicians. But the First Ladies — wives of chief ministers at least — are, more often than not, expected to essay benign...